I went from Vista Home Premium x64 to 7 Ultimate x64. Did an in place upgrade. The install was cake! Took about an hour and everything was installed. Tweaking afterwards was a whole other thing. A lot of disabling and fine tuning.

I also started the install with my 2407WFP's media/USB hub connected and it didn't seem to like it when it came to identifying drives. It put my drive letter last in the chain, assigning drive letters to the card reader slots.

I had this issue with Vista and I just forgot to disable AHCI and unplug that USB hub from my LCD.

I had blue screens during the windows 7 install and it was due to a stick of ram that was bad. I'd been using that ram for two years without blue screens in Vista. I guess 7 is just more sensitive to bad memory.

I had blue screens during the windows 7 install and it was due to a stick of ram that was bad. I'd been using that ram for two years without blue screens in Vista. I guess 7 is just more sensitive to bad memory.

Already tested the memory back in August. I had bought OCZ Reaper and it was defective. GOT new RMA ram, and got a perfect score. no bad ram.

my first ever install of win 7 is fine with 6 sata internal drives and 2 external usb hd's as well as 2 virtual drives, one dvd and one external esata drive as well as a usb pcie expansion card, 2 graphics cards and an audio card

so i wish you all the luck it has to be faulty hardware giving you issues

I re-installed, well, so far...I used eidy's step by step advice, until step 9. I did NOT put in my chipset drivers, Win 7 detected everything. I couldn't "update" software. So far, it's working ok. No BSOD's AT ALL. Still installing devices 1 by 1.